Micro-battery is super powerful, charges instantly

Technological leap: 'Now the power source is as high-performance as the rest of it'

Published: 04/20/2013 at 6:47 PM

(Huffington Post) Imagine charging your cell phone in 1 second. There’s a tiny new battery that can do that.

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created an incredibly small, incredibly powerful battery that could vastly improve technology moving forward. The new micro-battery charges 1,000 times faster than regular batteries.